§8.1φιλόφρον Ἡσυχία, Δίκας §8.2ὦ μεγιστόπολι θύγατερ, §8.3βουλᾶν τε καὶ πολέμων §8.4ἔχοισα κλαῗδας ὑπερτάτας, §8.5Πυθιόνικον τιμὰν Ἀριστομένει δέκευ.
Friendly Quietness (Hesychia), daughter of Justice (Dike), who make cities greatest, holding the supreme keys of counsels and of wars, receive the Pythian victory-honor for Aristomenes.
For you know how to both act and experience gentleness alike, with unerring timing.
§8.8τὺ δʼ, ὁπόταν τις ἀμείλιχον §8.9καρδίᾳ κότον ἐνελάσῃ, §8.10τραχεῖα δυσμενέων §8.11ὑπαντιάξαισα κράτει τιθεῖς §8.12Ὕβριν ἐν ἄντλῳ.
But you, whenever someone drives relentless anger into his heart, confronting the hostile ones with harshness, place Insolence (Hybris) in the bilge water with your power.
τὰν οὐδὲ Πορφυρίων μάθεν §8.13παρʼ αἶσαν ἐξερεθίζων· κέρδος δὲ φίλτατον, §8.14ἑκόντος εἴ τις ἐκ δόμων φέροι.
Even Porphyrion did not learn this, provoking you beyond what is fated; but the dearest gain is that which one carries from a house with a willing giver.
§8.15βία δὲ καὶ μεγάλαυχον ἔσφαλεν ἐν χρόνῳ.
But violence trips up even the big-boasting man in time.
§8.16Τυφὼς Κίλιξ ἑκατόγκρανος οὔ νιν ἄλυξεν, §8.17οὐδὲ μὰν βασιλεὺς Γιγάντων· δμᾶθεν δὲ κεραυνῷ §8.18τόξοισί τʼ Ἀπόλλωνος·
Typhos of Cilicia, the hundred-headed, did not escape it, nor indeed the king of the Giants; but they were subdued by the thunderbolt and by the arrows of Apollo.
ὃς εὐμενεῖ νόῳ §8.19Ξενάρκειον ἔδεκτο Κίρραθεν ἐστεφανωμένον §8.20υἱὸν ποίᾳ Παρνασσίδι Δωριεῖ τε κώμῳ.
Apollo, who with a benevolent mind received the son of Xenarces from Cirrha, crowned with Parnassian herb and with Dorian revel (komos).
§8.21ἔπεσε δʼ οὐ Χαρίτων ἑκὰς §8.22ἁ δικαιόπολις ἀρεταῖς §8.23κλειναῖσιν Αἰακιδᾶν §8.24θιγοῖσα νᾶσος· τελέαν δʼ ἔχει §8.25δόξαν ἀπʼ ἀρχᾶς.
And this just-governing island has not fallen far from the Graces, touching the famous virtues of the Aeacids; and she has held perfect glory from the beginning.
πολλοῖσι μὲν γὰρ ἀείδεται §8.26νικαφόροις ἐν ἀέθλοις θρέψαισα καὶ θοαῖς §8.27ὑπερτάτους ἥρωας ἐν μάχαις· §8.28τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀνδράσιν ἐμπρέπει.
For she is sung in many victory-bearing contests, as having nurtured the highest heroes in swift battles; and these things are outstanding also among today's men.
§8.29εἰμὶ δʼ ἄσχολος ἀναθέμεν §8.30πᾶσαν μακραγορίαν §8.31λύρᾳ τε καὶ φθέγματι μαλθακῷ, §8.32μὴ κόρος ἐλθὼν κνίσῃ.
But I am without leisure to commit all the long story to the lyre and to sweet song, lest satiety should come and vex us.
Let what is at my feet, your task, my boy, the newest of beautiful things, fly on the wings of my art.
§8.35παλαισμάτεσσι γὰρ ἰχνεύων ματραδελφεοὺς §8.36Ὀλυμπίᾳ τε Θεόγνητον οὐ κατελέγχεις, §8.37οὐδὲ Κλειτομάχοιο νίκαν Ἰσθμοῖ θρασύγυιον· §8.38αὔξων δὲ πάτραν Μιδυλιδᾶν λόγον φέρεις, §8.39τὸν ὅνπερ ποτʼ Ὀϊκλέος παῖς ἐν ἑπταπύλοις ἰδὼν §8.40υἱοὺς Θήβαις αἰνίξατο παρμένοντας αἰχμᾷ, §8.41ὁπότʼ ἀπʼ Ἄργεος ἤλυθον §8.42δευτέραν ὁδὸν Ἐπίγονοι.
For in wrestling, following the footsteps of your maternal uncles, you do not disgrace Theognetus at Olympia, nor the bold-limbed victory of Cleitomachus at the Isthmus; exalting the clan of the Midylids, you bear the fame which once the son of Oecles, seeing the sons in seven-gated Thebes standing fast by the spear, spoke in a riddle, when from Argos came the Epigoni on their second journey.
Thus he spoke of them fighting: "By nature the noble spirit from fathers shines forth in the sons.
θαέομαι σαφὲς §8.46δράκοντα ποικίλον αἰθᾶς Ἀλκμᾶνʼ ἐπʼ ἀσπίδος §8.47νωμῶντα πρῶτον ἐν Κάδμου πύλαις. §8.48ὁ δὲ καμὼν προτέρᾳ πάθᾳ §8.49νῦν ἀρείονος ἐνέχεται §8.50ὄρνιχος ἀγγελίᾳ §8.51Ἄδραστος ἥρως· τὸ δὲ οἴκοθεν §8.52ἀντία πράξει.
I see clearly Alcman wielding the dappled serpent on his shield first at the gates of Cadmus." "And he who suffered in the former disaster is now held by the message of a better bird of omen, the hero Adrastus; but in his own home he will fare otherwise.
μοῦνος γὰρ ἐκ Δαναῶν στρατοῦ §8.53θανόντος ὀστέα λέξαις υἱοῦ, τύχᾳ θεῶν §8.54ἀφίξεται λαῷ σὺν ἀβλαβεῖ §8.55Ἄβαντος εὐρυχόρους ἀγυιάς.
For alone from the host of the Danaans, having gathered the bones of his dead son, by the fate of the gods he will arrive with an unharmed army to the wide streets of Abas." Thus spoke Amphiaraus.
τοιαῦτα μὲν §8.56ἐφθέγξατʼ Ἀμφιάρηος. χαίρων δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς §8.57Ἀλκμᾶνα στεφάνοισι βάλλω, ῥαίνω δὲ καὶ ὕμνῳ, §8.58γείτων ὅτι μοι καὶ κτεάνων φύλαξ ἐμῶν §8.59ὑπάντασεν ἰόντι γᾶς ὀμφαλὸν παρʼ ἀοίδιμον, §8.60μαντευμάτων τʼ ἐφάψατο συγγόνοισι τέχναις.
And I myself with joy throw crowns upon Alcman, and sprinkle him with song, because he is my neighbor and the guardian of my possessions, meeting me as I went to the song-renowned navel of the earth, and he touched upon prophecies with his inborn arts.
§8.61τὺ δʼ,Ἑκαταβόλε, πάνδοκον §8.62ναὸν εὐκλέα διανέμων §8.63Πυθῶνος ἐν γυάλοις, §8.64τὸ μὲν μέγιστον τόθι χαρμάτων §8.65ὤπασας· οἴκοι δὲ πρόσθεν ἁρπαλέαν δόσιν §8.66πενταθλίου σὺν ἑορταῖς ὑμαῖς ἐπάγαγες.
And you, Far-Darter, ruling the all-welcoming glorious temple in the hollows of Pytho, granted there the greatest of joys; and before that, at home, you brought him the desirable gift of the pentathlon with your festivals.
O King, I pray with a willing mind to look with a certain harmony upon all things, wherever I go.
§8.70κώμῳ μὲν ἁδυμελεῖ §8.71Δίκα παρέστακε· θεῶν δʼ ὄπιν §8.72ἄφθονον αἰτέω, Ξείναρκες, ὑμετέραις τύχαις.
By the sweet-sounding revel Justice (Dike) stands; and I ask for the god's ungrudging favor, Xenarces, upon your fortunes.
§8.73εἰ γάρ τις ἐσλὰ πέπαται μὴ σὺν μακρῷ πόνῳ, §8.74πολλοῖς σοφὸς δοκεῖ πεδʼ ἀφρόνων §8.75βίον κορυσσέμεν ὀρθοβούλοισι μαχαναῖς· §8.76τὰ δʼ οὐκ ἐπʼ ἀνδράσι κεῖται· δαίμων δὲ παρίσχει, §8.77ἄλλοτʼ ἄλλον ὕπερθε βάλλων, ἄλλον δʼ ὑπὸ χειρῶν §8.78μέτρῳ καταβαίνει.
For if someone possesses good things without long labor, to many he seems to be a wise man among fools, arming his life with right-counseling devices; but these things do not lie with men; a god provides them, tossing now one on high, and bringing another down under his hands to the measure.
Μεγάροις δʼ ἔχεις γέρας, §8.79μυχῷ τʼ ἐν Μαραθῶνος, Ἥρας τʼ ἀγῶνʼ ἐπιχώριον §8.80νίκαις τρισσαῖς, Ὦριστόμενες, δάμασσας ἔργῳ· §8.81τέτρασι δʼ ἔμπετες ὑψόθεν §8.82σωμάτεσσι κακὰ φρονέων, §8.83τοῖς οὔτε νόστος ὁμῶς §8.84ἔπαλπνος ἐν Πυθιάδι κρίθη, §8.85οὐδὲ μολόντων πὰρ ματέρʼ ἀμφὶ γέλως γλυκὺς §8.86ὦρσεν χάριν· κατὰ λαύρας δʼ ἐχθρῶν ἀπάοροι §8.87πτώσσοντι, συμφορᾷ δεδαγμένοι.
In Megara you have your prize, and in the nook of Marathon, and the local games of Hera you subdued by your deed with three victories, Aristomenes; and upon four bodies you fell from above, devising hostile things for them, for whom no such delightful return was judged at the Pythiad, nor when they came to their mother did sweet laughter arouse joy; but along the alleys of their enemies, out of the way, they shrink, bitten by disaster.
§8.88ὁ δὲ καλόν τι νέον λαχὼν §8.89ἁβρότατος ἔπι μεγάλας §8.90ἐξ ἐλπίδος πέταται §8.91ὑποπτέροις ἀνορέαις, ἔχων §8.92κρέσσονα πλούτου μέριμναν.
But he who has won some new beautiful thing, upon great hope, flies from his luxury with winged deeds of manhood, having a care better than wealth.
ἐν δʼ ὀλίγῳ βροτῶν §8.93τὸ τερπνὸν αὔξεται· οὕτω δὲ καὶ πίτνει χαμαί, §8.94ἀποτρόπῳ γνώμᾳ σεσεισμένον.
But in a short time the delight of mortals grows; and so too it falls to the ground, shaken by an adverse will.
§8.95ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις;
Creatures of a day; what is anyone?
τί δʼ οὔ τις;
What is anyone not?
σκιᾶς ὄναρ §8.96ἄνθρωπος.
A dream of a shadow is man.
ἀλλʼ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ, §8.97λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών·
But when the god-given gleam comes, a brilliant light is upon men and a gentle life.